Coin-controlled mechanism.



PATENTED OUT. 15, 1907.

H. BLUM.'

COIN CONTROLLED MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 7, I906;

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PATENTED OCT. 15, 1907.

H. BLUM.

COIN CONTROLLED MECHANISM.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 7, 1906.

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HENRY BLUM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COIN-CONTROLLED MECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 7,1906. Serial No. 325 108.

Patented Oct. 15, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BLUM, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCoin-Controlled Mechanism of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coin controlled mechanism which may be appliedto various purposes, being shown in this application for deliveringspecific quotas of fluid, such as soda water or other beverages, and myimprovement comprises means whereby a coin inserted in the apparatusforms an operative connection for such mechanism.

In the drawing accompanying this application, Figure 1 is a sectionalelevation of my coin controlled mechanism, showing it as used inconjunction with the spring pressed plunger-s of certain valvemechanism, which latter is not described in detail herein, being thesubject of a divisional application. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof.Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section onthe line 44 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail front view of the coin holdingwheel, and Fig. 6 is a detail face view of the cam plate for actuatingthe valve plungers.

The valve mechanism with which this improvement is shown as applied isintended to be supported in a horizontal position as by vertical wall 1,the coin-controlled mechanism, the subject of this application, beinginclosed by a hollow cap or cover as 2, from which a fluid deliveryspout 3 is shown as projecting forwardly.

A shaft 4, carrying a solid Wheel 5, is journaled in a bearing 6 throughwall 1. Said wheel 5 is provided with four peripheral slots 7, toreceive coins, and arranged radially at equidistant points, the forwardsurface of said wheel containing a concentric groove 8, of sufficientdepth to intersect said slots 7.

The cap 2 supports a bearing 9, in which is placed a shaft 10 in axialalinement with shaft 4, the shaft 10 carrying a disk 11, parallel with,and in proximity to wheel 5. A stud or roller 12, upon the face of disk11, is entered within groove 8, and adapted to travel within said groovein the turning movement of said disk.

Shaft 10 is provided with an operating handle 13, but is limited to aquarter turn by a radial stud 14, projecting from shaft 10, and lying ina segmental slot 15 formed in the bearing 9. A spring, as 16, serves toreturn the shaft after each forward quarter turn.

The shaft 4 may carry or operate a suitable body adapted to serve someuseful function. It is shown in the drawing as carrying a disk 17 whichhas upon its outer face the oppositely disposed cam surfaces 18, 19,which, in the rotation of said disk bear against an oppositely disposedpair of valve heads 26, 26, to actuate the valves thereof.

In the operation of my improved coin controlled mechanism, a coin isdropped through a slot as 51 in the cap 2 and enters a slot in wheel 5,said wheel always having a slot 7 in alinement with the slot 51 when themechanism is at rest. The handle 13 is then given a quarter turn, withthe result that stud l2, traveling in concentric groove 8, strikesagainst the coin contained in a slot '7, and through said coin moveswheel 5 correspondingly. The disk 17 or other body to be actuated isthereby turned and rendered capable of performing its desired function,which in the illustration shown is that of bringing its cam surfaces 18,19 against the valve heads 26, 26, thereby, through rods 24, moving apair of valves 33 away from their respective seats. In the operationaforesaid the wheel 5, in making the quarter turn aforesaid, haspresented a succeeding coin slot '7 beneath the slot 51, while thehandle 13, having been released, has been returned by its spring 16 toits original position. Thus another coin may be dropped through slot 51and the operation repeated. As the wheel 5 turns over the coins drop outfrom slots 7 and pass through chute 52 into a suitable receptacle.

I claim:

1. In coin controlled mechanism, a shaft, :1 solid wheel fast thereon,said wheel having a radial transverse coin receiving slot extending partway in from its periphery, and a concentric groove in its side whosepath includes said coin slot; together with a roclemember journaled inaxial alinement with said shaft, a fixed stud carried by saidroclememher in manner to travel in said concentric groove, and means foractuating said rock-member whereby said stud meets a coin halted in saidreceiving slot, and by continued movement with said coin turns saidwheel and shaft.

2. In coin controlled mechanism, a shaft, a solid wheel fast thereon,said wheel having four radialv transverse equidistant coin receivingsiots extending part way in from its periphery, and a concentric groovein its side whose path includes said coin slots; together with arock-member journaled in axial alinelnent with said shaft, a fixed studcarried by said rock-member in manner to travel in said concentricgroove, means for actuating said rock-member, whereby said stud meets acoin halted in a receiving slot to communicate movement to the wheel andshaft, means limiting such movement to a quarter turn, and tensionalmeans to retract said rock-member.

Signed at New York, this 23d day of June, 1906.

HENRY BLUM.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK C. BONNY, F. W. BARKER.

